[v]→[n]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 1/5

Nasalization Correspondence Nakh-Dagestani

Voiced labiodental fricative to Alveolar nasal

The correspondence between the voiced labiodental fricative [v] (or its bilabial stop reflex [b]) and the alveolar nasal [n] is documented in the Nakh-Dagestani language family, where labial consonants in one dialect correspond to nasals in related languages.

Phonetic Effects

Nasal Correspondence, Place Shift, Dialectal Correspondence

Language Examples

Bats vs. Chechen Nakh-Dagestani

de b lar [v/b]→dillan [n]— Regular correspondence where the Bats labial consonant corresponds to an alveolar nasal in Chechen.

Related Transformations

Reverse Liquid correspondence Labial nasal equivalent

More Nasalization Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [∅] → [ã] — Compensatory Nasalization [∅] → [ẽ] — Compensatory Nasalization [∅] → [õ] — Consonant Loss

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